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Okay, so I have been looking at ordering a set of new wheels for my WRX and I'm looking to go wider.

I'm looking at a set that is 17x8 vs the stock 17x7

But that means I need to order some wider tires along with that... looking at the numbers my stockers are 225-45-17 and running them means I need a sidewall close to 101mm

I found that 255-40-17 would leave me with 102mm even for the sidewall which is only a tiny amount of difference but it would leave me with a slightly better speedometer readout seeing as there is an error margin as it is, basically it would line things up just right or damn near it.

But seeing as a 225-255 would leave me with a little more than an extra inch in width (1.181) I will have just a slight bit more of a bulge on either side of the wheel.

Does anyone think that will leave with rubbing issues. I don't know how wide I can go on these without running into some kind of issue.

The wheels I'm looking at are 17X8 5-100 46GM

I wouldn't mind going 7.5 wide but I'm just not liking any of the wheels that I've looked at for them.

omorales, I'm surprised you haven't chimed in on the second set of wheels that I put up. They are much better but still not as good resources for ordering rims and tires is limited online anymore. At least it seems to be, I used to be able to go to one site and order whatever I wanted now you have to end up ordering from 3-4 different sites to get the right stuff.

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